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Nations resumed talks on tackling global warming Monday with the aim of shaping a deal that might put the world on track to prevent a dangerous increase in temperatures, as the United Nations' top climate official called for deep cuts in fossil fuel use.

The federal government’s modelling indicates this may be an “especially severe wildfire season,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa as smoke clouded the nation’s capital.

Newly released documents say the intelligence community's relationship with its key watchdog has been particularly strained over the last year due to a "level of resistance" to scrutiny.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to provide an update on the wildfires that have forced thousands of people from their homes and caused widespread property damage in several provinces.

The owner of a Nova Scotia daycare destroyed as recent wildfires ripped through the province says the flames consumed both her livelihood and a physical piece of twentieth-century history.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has announced a plan to protect iconic Prairie grasslands, considered one of the most endangered and least protected ecosystems in the country.

A technology that generates power by pumping and recirculating water between two reservoirs may soon be in place at an abandoned Ontario iron ore mine.

Scientists are increasingly seeing evidence of “dark extinction” in museum and botanical garden collections.

Fisheries enforcement officers are taking an unnecessary and heavy-handed approach over what appears to be a bureaucratic error caused the Department of Fisheries’ own licensing branch, said Sonia Strobel, CEO of Skipper Otto community-supported fishery. 

The federal government is once again putting taxpayer dollars on the line to prop up the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The British Columbia government has extended an order deferring old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed on Vancouver Island.

Ontario is investing millions of dollars on a provincewide strategy to identify and plug abandoned oil and gas wells.

DuPont de Nemours Inc., The Chemours Co. and Corteva Inc. said they would establish a fund to compensate water providers for contamination with the chemicals used widely in nonstick, water- and grease-resistant products, as well as some firefighting foams.

People with existing heart and lung conditions, seniors, pregnant people, and children are all particularly vulnerable to health issues from smoke inhalation. Smoke inhalation can worsen underlying conditions such as asthma, impact lung function and cause respiratory problems.

Environment groups say the only true way to eliminate plastic pollution is to make less plastic in the first place.